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Mary Edith Durham (8 December 1863 – 15 November 1944) was a British traveller, artist and writer who became famous for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century.

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There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

Journey, Riding, Trail, Travel

The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

Italian, Long, Slashes, Stripes, White

I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).

Army, Believe, Christian, Farms, Owned, Slavs

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever. "

Albania, Goes On, Past, Powers, Strewn, Wreckage

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